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I agree. I have a strong academic interest in firearms despite having handled and/or fired only a dozen different types and I always take note when looking at weapon photos and specs about where the safety and other controls are and how the weapon operates. So often in films and on TV I see shows where characters that obviously have little or no experience with firearms find themselves picking up a weapon and pointing it at the bad guy and I often think to myself 'man I hope you at least have enough knowledge to check that there is a round in the chamber and the safety is off'. Otherwise you are basically holding a club.
That's nothing compared to the semiautomatic M-72 I saw in one D-Grade war movie...
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That's nothing compared to the semiautomatic M-72 I saw in one D-Grade war movie...
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Old 07-06-2009, 10:22 PM
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Well, let's see...looks just like an M-72...has no magazine...the guy fired it from the hip...you Iraq/Afghanistan vets -- are they fielding it in numbers yet?

I think it's what my nephew would call "unobtainium." BTW, he back from Afghanistan on leave! In one piece! He's up at Riley with his ex-wife/fiancee (don't ask -- it's a real soap opera), but James'll be here in two weeks to visit my sister and the rest of us.
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Glad to hear that your nephew is well Paul. Respect to him.
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oooo, that's a receipe for disaster!
I wonder if she ever gets jealous of herself?

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Well, let's see...looks just like an M-72...has no magazine...the guy fired it from the hip...you Iraq/Afghanistan vets -- are they fielding it in numbers yet?

I think it's what my nephew would call "unobtainium." BTW, he back from Afghanistan on leave! In one piece! He's up at Riley with his ex-wife/fiancee (don't ask -- it's a real soap opera), but James'll be here in two weeks to visit my sister and the rest of us.
Good to hear about your nephew being safe. I'm sure there will be much to talk about.
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Well, let's see...looks just like an M-72...has no magazine...the guy fired it from the hip...you Iraq/Afghanistan vets -- are they fielding it in numbers yet?
Sounds like _Maximum Overdrive_ ...
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So often in films and on TV I see shows where characters that obviously have little or no experience with firearms
My favorite is when, for dramatic effect, a character pumps a shotgun at the end of a fight. Then, at the start of a following scene, without having fired the shotgun, they pump it dramatically again. I'm still waiting for an unfired shell to go flying out of the gun ...
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My favorite is when, for dramatic effect, a character pumps a shotgun at the end of a fight. Then, at the start of a following scene, without having fired the shotgun, they pump it dramatically again. I'm still waiting for an unfired shell to go flying out of the gun ...
I like the scene in Terminator 2 when Sarah keeps shifting her SPAS-12 so that she can pump it with one hand since her other arm is wounded. During all that weapons training she did, didn't she ever find that by pushing a little button, the SPAS-12 will fire semiautomatically?

And did you notice at one point in American Gangster, Denzel Washington's character fired two shots at close range at his victim -- but though the second shot went bang, but the pistol was actually stovepiped?
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Awww come on people! If movie makers were to actually fix all these little things we'd have nothing left to complain about!
Do we really want to take one of lifes little pleasures away like that?

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Awww come on people! If movie makers were to actually fix all these little things we'd have nothing left to complain about!
Do we really want to take one of lifes little pleasures away like that?

That is one of life's little pleasures for me! And I also love driving my family crazy pointing out those silly little things to them during movies!
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That is one of life's little pleasures for me! And I also love driving my family crazy pointing out those silly little things to them during movies!
Like in the new Wolverine movie, when Wolverine and Sabretooth charged the beaches at Normandy... They where suppose to be on either side of Captain America! And I found out WHY he wasn't there for the start of the movie... Legalese mumbo-jumbo that the Wolverine movie was being done by Fox and the new Captain America movie will be done by the Marvel Movies company... and the two companies just couldn't come up with the right contract to get him in that scene....
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Wow. The perils of extreme thread drift!
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oooo, that's a receipe for disaster!
I wonder if she ever gets jealous of herself?

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